Dealing with "Suspect Tapes" in Microsoft DPM 2012 R2

posted 27 Apr 2015, 00:25 by Tristan Self

Sometimes a tape will be marked as suspect, seemingly for no reason. To resolve this you need to do the follow these instructions to first identify the MediaID of the suspect tape against its Barcode. Then mark it as normal (i.e. not suspect).

Ensure there is a
backup of the SQL database for DPM. In SQL Query analyser: